Why brokerages need to partner with agents to market all their listings Do you run a real estate brokerage? Handle the marketing for one? If yes, you’re probably now asking yourself, “Why should I care about marketing a listing? That’s the agent’s job.” If the agent wants to sell the property, they’ll put out the ...

Virtual reality, big data, Facebook advertising, marketing automation… Those are just a few of the new marketing trends emerging in today's wildly competitive real estate landscape. If your brand is going to stay relevant, your marketing strategies and processes need to adapt accordingly. One broker owner aptly sums up the need for innovation (in our ...

How does a broker get their agents to increase the number of listings while at the same time make certain they always stay in touch with past clients and prospects? That’s the conundrum for real estate brokers. Most agents cycle through these two activities one at a time: Agents prospect, prospect, prospect, which generates listings; ...

Brokers know that as independent contractors, real estate agents often work at their own pace. Agents typically have their own work processes, set their own schedules, and possess management styles as varied as the ice cream flavors at Baskin Robbins. Some agents are great taskmasters: they are highly disciplined, remain diligent in structuring each workday, ...

How important is one’s brand in real estate? That is the question we examined in last year’s Thought Leader Survey. As you might have expected, it turns out that brand is incredibly important to the vast majority of real estate leaders. At the top of the findings was how important the concept of ‘brand consistency’ ...

Marketing Automation is poised to dramatically change how real estate brokerages promote their listings and their agents and ultimately improve their marketing effectiveness, according to the most recent Thought Leader Survey that Imprev conducted. More than 200 leading real estate franchises and independent brokerages, who collectively handled more than one-third of all U.S. residential real ...

We recently surveyed the top real estate executives across the nation about what we believe will be the hottest new technology for 2016: Marketing automation. With nearly one third of the brokerage industry already using some form of marketing automation to promote their listings, another third are planning to implement marketing automation next year. One ...

Marketing automation is sweeping the real estate industry. The latest industry Thought Leader Survey tells us that nearly one in three real estate leaders say they plan to implement marketing automation next year. Of the firms that are using marketing automation, 56% plan to increase their use. This would mean the number of real estate ...

Finding the best and the brightest is a lot easier than getting them to join your firm. Top producing and “best” real estate agent lists abound: The Wall Street Journal and RealTrends publish several lists, US News & World Report (by Agent Ace) provides a searchable, market-by-market “best” list, and there are often local data ...

Guess what the average closing rate is for real estate leads that are generated online? It’s a meager 1%. That means millions of leads are going to the virtual dead lead drawer and millions of dollars invested by brokers to purchase those leads are being tossed away. Brokers often make the mistake of letting their ...